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But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
Barbara Walters
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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
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Boston
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Barbara Jill Walters
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